James Cochran

Background

About James Cochran

Awards received include:William G. Hunter Award, American Society for Quality, 2023INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award finalist (second place for Analytical Pipeline for Identifying Potential Sex Trafficking Victims in Commercial Sex Ad Data), 2023Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society International (IEOM) Outstanding Professor Award, 2023Melbourne Business School's Centre for Business Analytics Practice Prize semifinalist (Using Analytics to Understand and Improve Provider Accessibility for a State Medicaid Agency in the United States)INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award finalist (third place for Using Analytics for Urban Blight Remediation), 2022Cengage Product of the Year (for Business Analytics), 2021INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award finalist (for Using Analytics to Understand and Improve Provider Accessibility for a State Medicaid Agency), 2021OBAIS Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Cincinnati, 2019#2 on BookAuthority’s 22 Best New Analytics Books to Read in 2019 (for the INFORMS Analytics Body of Knowledge), 2019#13 on BookAuthority’s 88 Best New Knowledge Books to Read in 2019 (for the INFORMS Analytics Body of Knowledge), 2019#25 on BookAuthority’s 29 Best Analytics Books for Beginners (for the INFORMS Analytics Body of Knowledge), 2019#22 on BookAuthority’s 26 Best Analytics eBooks for Beginners (for the INFORMS Analytics Body of Knowledge), 2019President’s Award, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2018Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2017Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award, American Statistical Association, 2017Cengage Product & Marketing Team of the Year, Decision Sciences, 2016Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society, American Statistical Association, 2015Founders Award, American Statistical Association, 2014President’s Medallion, Louisiana Tech University, 2014Outstanding Business Reference by the Reference and User Services Association, 2011 (for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science)Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2011Mu Sigma Rho Statistical Education Award, 2010INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice, 2008American Statistical Association Significant Contributor to Statistics in Sports Award, 2008INFORMS Case Writing Competition VII finalist, 2006Elected to the International Statistics Institute, 2005